Duvall v. Michigan Central Railroad

Plaintiff's decedent was struck by the engine of a passenger train .of the Flint & Pere Marquette Railroad Company, at the crossing on Twentieth street, in the city of Detroit, and instantly killed. Railroad gates were in use at this crossing, which extended across the highway and over one sidewalk. The gate was going down as he passed it, and, when it was down, he was inside. There were at this point 12 or 14 tracks. A passenger train known as the “Bay City Train” was coming from, the west, on the second or- third track from him as he entered, going north. He saw this train, and, instead of…